HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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Chinese trade carried Islamic beliefs to West Africa.
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Islam spread beyond the Middle East to other areas around the world.
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Islam began in West Africa and spread to the Middle East.
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Europeans encouraged Islamic beliefs during the colonial period.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Between the eighth and ninth centuries, Arab traders and travelers, then African clerics, began to spread the religion along the eastern coast of Africa and to the western and central Sudan (literally, “Land of Black people”), stimulating the development of urban communities.
Detailed explanation-2: -Islam promoted trade between West Africa and the Mediterranean. The religion developed and widened the trans-Saharan Caravan trade. The trade enriched the West African and the Muslim traders. Muslims from North Africa came in their numbers and settled in the commercial centres.
Detailed explanation-3: -Over a period of a few hundred years, Islam spread from its place of origin in the Arabian Peninsula all the way to modern Spain in the west and northern India in the east. Islam traveled through these regions in many ways.